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Friday Focus: An environment for student success

Portrait of Chancellor Dan White
Sometimes a student’s academic preparation aligns well with their aspirations and other times it doesn’t. Our job is to bridge the two for all students who choose UAF. Read more

Save the date: Chancellor's enrollment forum March 17

Please join Chancellor Dan White and other UAF leaders for an enrollment forum from 1-2 p.m.
March 17 in the Wood Center ballroom. Read more

COVID-19 update: Feb. 28, 2020

There are still no confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 in Alaska. We continue to focus on monitoring official information and consider plans for a potential outbreak at UAF. Read more

Student Aidan Earnest among Truman Scholarship finalists

Photo of Aidan Earnest in Wood Center.
"The amount of opportunities that are available here on campus, in Fairbanks and in Alaska — all you have to do is reach out." Read more

Jonathan Gates named Fairbanks Student Engineer of the Year

Jonathan Gates stands in a living room holding a plaque.
Jonathan Gates was named the 2020 Student Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Professional Engineers of Fairbanks. Read more

What's on today

Museum Early Explorers: Fossils
Governor’s Cup pep rally
Hockey v. UAA (Governor's Cup)
IAB seminar: environmental change in Y-K Delta
UA State of the University address, viewing party

What's on this weekend

Hockey v. UAA (Governor's Cup) (Sat.)
Banff Mountain Film Festival (Sun.)

Deadlines and reminders

Feedback on course block alignment (today)
Alumni board nominations (Sat.)
RAHI applications due (Sun.)
BlaST undergrad research applications (Sun.)
Apply for remote energy academy (Sun.)
Performance management training (thru March)

Gov Cup game face

Fans wear bear masks across the lower half of their face.
It's the Governor's Cup this weekend, and Friday is a great day to wear your blue and gold! View online

UA Press Book Club update

Book cover for Jill Lepore's These Truths
On March 2, readers will discuss chapter 9 of Jill Lepore’s “These Truths”: “Of Citizens, Persons and People,” about Reconstruction and the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. Read more

Chanel Miller to be keynote speaker for Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Chanel Miller will give a talk April 2 in the Davis Concert Hall at 6 p.m. In 2016, Glamour named her a Woman of the Year. Read more

The recent fall of the upper Yukon River

The recent fall of the upper Yukon River
While skiing with two friends on the frozen Yukon River a few weeks ago, I visited the eight people who live between the towns of Eagle and Circle, which are 160 river miles apart. They all shared the same observation: The Yukon River’s average level has dropped recently. They all mentioned “river piracy” that happened in an unseen high valley, 500 miles away, as a probable cause. Read more

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